I think Rovers can nick this one and get a first double of the season. Rover should adopt a 4-5-1 formaion for the first half, then with the score 0-0 change to 4-4-2 and let the kuqi Monster strut his stuff and scor ethe all important winner 1-0 Rovers

sleepy J give bentley the ball and he can manipulate it very well even as good as Tugay. He just needs to be more confident about the players around him

RAF germany are not that really too good a team I can see the Polish beating them making the Germany v England game the most important match int eh first knockout round. My semi finalists England Brazil Argentina Spain

Hello my name is Roverite and I am a Roverholic The drummer has finally got to me. He and his boyfriend/lover or whatever finally forced me to take the option of a free ticket (courtesy of Budweiser) and move on up to the high echelons of the Sir Jack Walker Stand where my view was quite simply superb from just below the gantry. Before I go to the game itself, a few views. The ground today looked like there were more than 20000 fans inside, I am sure that Rovers are on the take ! I talked to Gary Flitcroft prematch along with Jay McEveley, unable to obtain some insider information HOWEVER Rovers had 2 players in the stands watching, they are both Europeans and have/are linked to Rovers. Sorry dont know their names and I didnt actually see them. The game and the first half are unmentionable. Utter garbage, poor,crap whatever, it was certainly not a half where any effort was produced. Too many players didnt want the ball and too many gave the ball away. Rovers, although with the dominant possession seemed happy to commit suicide and echo's of the Everton game were sounding at Ewood as wham broke and scored the goal the game was crying out for. Pain for us Supporters, as we all know Rovers are not or never supposed to be capable of coming back from behind in Premiership games. The second half came and no substitutions, I was amazed as I expected Dickov and Emeerton to be off and replaced. The same 11 began the second half and what a transformation. Immediately we saw Rovers attack the ball, Emerton was a man possessed and Bentley's skill was becoming evident. A couple of close calls, two fantastic reaction saves from Carroll stopped the Rovers drawing level. Then we had the luck, Riley the KN*B gives Rovers a penalty for handball, from my seat we were fortunate. But who cares? A sweetly struck mishit/scuffshot finds its way home as Carroll is despatched the wrong way. All square but then almost immediately Rovers a 2-1 ahead. A fantastic ball, slightly deflected to the back post, finds our little Scottish striker lurking and the ball is in the net. Unbelievable considering the first half we had just witnessed. But hey ? We are Blackburn Rovers and some non existant defending, plenty of backing off and a mis tackle sees the ball to the byline, a cross and a simple header at the back post 2-2 . Gutted from my seat, I lost my head as the abuse directed towards the midfield and defence rebounded off a lovely middle aged lady who appeared to take umbridge at my passion on conceding another soft goal. Without being rude, I simply informed this lovely lady that if my team showed as much passion as I then we would see them eating at the top table and playing Champions League Football, not to mention the 25k a week they earn So Wham are on the up and the bubble that had long burst were back floating around in cockney chime. Game on. Rovers continue to press and Savage nearly scores with a fantastic effort from 25 yards, lots of oooohs and aaaaghs and then Zurab plays the most idiotic of back headers and the ugliest striker in the WORLD fails miserably as he hits a fan at the top of the Blackburn End. Relief for all round then The Kuqi Monster wins a header, barges his way past the wham defence and blasts the ball into the net off the underside of the bar. 3-2 and Rovers appear home and dry. Enter frenetic, frantic and sometimes damn right poor defending and Rovers want to press the self destruct button. A simple clearance and series of air shots ends when Savage and Brad square up. The muppet show is nearly resurrected but the players compose themselves and finally, after much heavy breathing Riley the KN*B blows his penny whistle and the points are in the bag. Rovers are through the 20 point barrier and now have the luxury of what we fnas would believe are a few games that we can reasonably expect to gain some points. Relegation worries are now confined to the memory of last season and we all now look forward to the festive season in a positive frame of mind. If only Rovers could have got 3 points from the Everton game . MY view on tactics was that Rovers looked solid for 40 minutes. Lucas played centre half very comfortably alongside Zurab. I could believe we had the diddy men up front. Brad - 7 - virtually nothing to do all game. 1 save and twice picked hte ball out of the net. Reid - 6 - did not look comfortable in the first half. Too many loose passes. Zurab - 7 - stupid header nearly cost us, backed off when wham scored the first goal. Neill 8 - my man of the match. Solid and the lung busting run at the end deserved a goal. Gray - 7 - steady game but can do more. MGP - 6 - flitted in the first half, got stuck in more in the second period. He needs to be more positive. Tugay - 6 flatters to deceive sometimes and definately gave too many simple balls away. When he is good he is great when he is bad he is very poor. Emerton - 4 - where was he in the first 45 ? only lasted 10 minutes in the 2nd before being subbed. Savage - 7 - steady game, two cracking free kicks and broke up a lot of whams play. Dickov - 7 - poor first half but 2 well taken goals. poor booking whn MGP was gonna be clean through he decided to take out the wham player giving them a free kick. Bentley - 7 some great touches, unlucky not to score himself and set up goal number 2. Subs the Axe - 6 - steady Jansen - 9 - just for getting on in a game Kuqi - 7 - simply does not give up, blasted his way through the defence for the winner. 10/10 for the dive. So 3 points, 12th in the league and everything to look forward to. Come on Rovers, fulham, boro, sunderland, wigan and pompy are next up. Santa, all I want for christmas is 12-15 points.

When Rovers wooped them 7-1 I was in the Spiros Bar, Rhodes with three wham grippers and 6 Rovers fans. Got suitably lashed up. A full days football on tv with Rovers v wham, galatasaray v fenerbache, celtic v rangers and then olympiakos v aek athens

England comfortable draw, yes we aint beat sweden since 68 but next year, 2006, is the year England clean sweep the group. Definate semi finalists probable finalists likely winners should get my full itinery in the next 4/5 weeks

awful news as for those crying for Jansen, he is currently nursing a thigh strain dicko and shefki ? you can see the Premiership defenders whinceing in agony from splitting sides

England to beat Czech republic 2-0 in the final

am very surprised Flitty aint in that list. Not only does he have property, he also has a sports business. As does Tim Sherwood who recently reaped the reward of a "big share sale". I wonder if the walker millions included the land occupied by BRFC ?

I dont think so really. It could be used as a novelty, yes I would go as far as letting u13's in free 14-16 £2-£3, students a fiver etc etc Just to guage reaction we all know how much the seasonal period is gonna cost not jut for footie but for everything else match tickets alone are costing me over £130, not to mention travel,beer and food then theres the cup games it all adds up Rovers have the opportunity to set a precedent

some breaking news in the newcastle chronicle news reports are surfacing that McCleish will be sacked at Rangers after todays game versus Milan and that Souness will be reinstated at Ibrox after a compensation package of £900.000.00 has been agreed between Murray and Shepherd.

Rovers have the ideal opportunity to promote the club with the up and coming FA Cup game with QPR. Lets see, QPR are likely to bring no more than 1000 supporters at best. With todays prices Rovers would no doubt attract a crowd less than 15k for this fixture. The club need to speak to Qpr NOW and make the game family friendly for both sets of supporters. between them they can lower prices for tickets, say £15 for an adult £8-£10 for concessions. Introduce a family ticket say 2 adult tickets 2 children free. Get the schools involved and offer 3000 tickets at £2 a head for kids. Promote the half season ticket at the same time and you never know what the results may be. If Rovers can make a headline grabbing initiative for the match the knock on could be fantastic and get another 2k fans through those gates for each and every game. It may even be more with the teams still to visit Ewood. Everyone knows this game comes straight after xmas/new year when people are recovering from the financial constraints of the seasonal celebration. So to offer such an incentive then who knows. The marketing people need to take action as soon as possible, its an ideal opportunity

Jim, having watched his interview this morning he quite clearly has a drink problem. I see a tragic end for this fantastically gifted player

get over it Nayef, Halsey is the biggest muppet since Fozzie bear. Rovers still have the stigma created by moanalot and whinger and it still attracts the wrong attention from referees and the media. In any case the decision would not have been reversed and indeed Rovers are not appealing on this occasion. In relation to Dunn, he could just be the missing link and replacement for Tugay - Yes I have slated, hung drawn and quartered him and slagged him off - but I really do see this lad as being the Rovers creator ala Tugay in the near future. bring him home if he can keep fit for the rest of this season.

wham are currently winning at big city fc 2-1, not much between the teams although wham appear to be a little bit better organised. big city club hit with 2 hamstring injuries before half time dunn just looks like he wants to come home stop press another brum injury, all subs used tiny taylor injured !

a Rovers win

Rovers shouldhave had him in the starting line up instead of Thompson

for me the team was the wrong first 11 today. Rovers should have had 4-4-2 with Kuqi partnering Bellamy. Thompson should not have started, he is not yet fit enough and should have kept a cameo role. The referee had a stinker again, cant really comment on the handball - I will wait for footie first - but please halsey, your stats read that you intercepted more balls than the whole of the everton defence together I can only put his performance alongside Ashby's versus manure when he sent Henning packing for nothing The saddest thing about today is that Rovers have now been undone by two of the poorest teams in the league at Ewood and have conceded 5 goals in the process without scoring. Everton were more effective with 11 Rovers players on the park, when toddy left us Rovers were still the better team and were up until the last 10 minutes. MGP had a shocker bentley did ok in fits and starts No comment on the rest as I am still fuming about the result

check out bbc it says he has been replaced by Halsey

and it was probably that money which has allowed us to go and sort out the back room staff and implement such a successfu work ethic thanks graham, and dean and so on I dont think BFS Allardyce will do much better either, he dont like prima donnas and newcastle is full of them

jbn this govenment is systematically robbing every single one of its workers the taxes are greater than the current rate of inflation council tax is nearing another 4% rise for next year with the average wage rise no more thatn 2.4% car tax is getting more expensive yet the roads are not any better fuel is rocketing vat is being added to EVERYTHING the police/ambulance and fire service all want US to pay an extra 1.2% extra on top of the additions to council tax get my point ? we are paying and for what exactly ?

Rovers have the ability to win at least 5 of those games which would be nice. JHC if we won all 7 then how good would that be, running into the bolton boys on a run that good, even better if we have won the carling cup tie and the fa cup tie as well. People can dream, but hey, its nearly Christmas Time, the season of dreams

I definately think Everton are worse off for the fact Cahill is now out of the game. Its difficult to see what midfield they will put out, especially if Arteta does not pass a fitness test. It will certainly be interesting

Vinjay a simple solution get yourself into politics get elected as an MP or Mayor apply for city status for Blackburn As head of local government, sack all the labour mps, the libs and the other dross, head a one man government and divert all of lancashires cash into BRFC, buying out the Walker stake. That might just make you happy

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